Adaptation to Resilience Planning: Alternative Pathways to Prepare for Climate Change

Sierra C. Woodruff; Sara Meerow; Missy Stults; Chandler Wilkins

doi:10.1177/0739456X18801057

Adaptation to Resilience Planning: Alternative Pathways to Prepare for Climate Change

Sierra C. Woodruff, Sara Meerow, Missy Stults, Chandler Wilkins

Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, School of (SGSUP)

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Abstract

Increasingly, local governments are creating resilience plans. What do these plans contain and how do they compare to other efforts to plan for climate change? We use plan evaluation to analyze 10 resilience plans from U.S. cities in the 100 Resilient Cites program and compare them to 44 climate change adaptation plans. Resilience plans lack critical elements to prepare cities for climate change but offer a platform to address economic, social, and environmental policies that may amplify climate change impacts. Resilience planning represents an alternative, potentially complementary, path to preparing for climate change, but there is room for improvement.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	64-75
Number of pages	12
Journal	Journal of Planning Education and Research
Volume	42
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X18801057
State	Published - Mar 2022

Keywords

adaptation
climate change
plan evaluation
resilience

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Geography, Planning and Development
Development
Urban Studies

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